Father Christmas lifts a young girl up to look at a toy soldier on a highly-decorated Christmas tree at a home for evacuees in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom in December 1941. It is interesting to note that this Father Christmas is actually being played by a woman! less

Father Christmas lifts a young girl up to look at a toy soldier on a highly-decorated Christmas tree at a home for evacuees in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom in December 1941. It is interesting ... more

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Father Christmas in a costume and mask presents a young boy with a gift of a book of nursery rhymes while shaking his hand at a Christmas party for Allied Naval Officers' Children in London on Dec. 17, 1942.

Father Christmas in a costume and mask presents a young boy with a gift of a book of nursery rhymes while shaking his hand at a Christmas party for Allied Naval Officers' Children in London on Dec. 17, 1942.

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A department store Santa Claus talks with two boys sitting on his lap in 1943.

A department store Santa Claus talks with two boys sitting on his lap in 1943.

Father Christmas visits a ward in New York's Orthopaedic Hospital, circa 1950.

Father Christmas visits a ward in New York's Orthopaedic Hospital, circa 1950.

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Father Christmas visits a group of children in East Ham, London, on Dec. 22, 1950.

Father Christmas visits a group of children in East Ham, London, on Dec. 22, 1950.

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Bob Gordon, a department store Father Christmas, has some close shaves with the slightly more curious children, such as this young boy intent on discovering the secret under Santa's beard, on Nov. 30, 1951.

Bob Gordon, a department store Father Christmas, has some close shaves with the slightly more curious children, such as this young boy intent on discovering the secret under Santa's beard, on Nov. 30, 1951.